Lab 1 - EE 421L 

Authored by Damian Aceves-Franco,

acevesfr@unlv.nevada.edu

Due 09/01/2021

Pre-lab work

• The lab reports will be drafted using html and placed on CMOSedu.
• Prior to the first day of lab, but no earlier than one week before the lab starts, get a CMOSedu account, using your UNLV email address, from Dr. Baker, rjacobbaker@gmail.com  
• Review the material seen here covering editing webpages (do this before the first lab)

Lab description

This first lab will go through the first part of Tutorial 1 seen here. 

Use an Xterm (written and video) as discussed.

Lab Work: Tutorial 1

After setting up all the necesary files and setting up Canence through MobaXterm we are able the start using Cadence’s Virtuoso editing tool. 

In the MobaXterm login 

then type "cd CMOSedu/" press enter, next type "virtuoso &" press enter

Next when starting Virtuoso the window below with appear

Then we creat a library by, Library Manager, File -> New -> Library. Name it Tutorial_1 and attach the AMI 0.06u C5N 

We must then make sure the the new library was added to the cds.lib file. Normialy it is done automaticly.

Next lets go through the Library Tap and look for the Tutorial_1 and make a cell for it so menu items File -> New -> Cell View and enter the information seen below and press OK

Next let place a component on the schematic, so we go to Creat-> Instance. A window called Component Brower will popup with a Add Instance  window. In the 

Component Brower find the Library NCUS_Analog_parts. when look for R_L_C press that end it will lead you to the "res" press that and set the value of the

resistor to 10K Ohms

Place two resistors pressing R rotated the symbol and pressing Ecs leaves the "Add Instance" mode or any mode 

F key on the keyboard fits the viewing 

Then we place the groud the same way we did before. This will also apply to the volage sorce. 

to find the voltage source go to Volage_Sources then "vdc"

To connect the components just the wire key of press w for wire

when done lets lable the wire using the "abc" key or use use lowercase L to label it

Now let press the "Check and Save"

Now after the Check and Save  go to Lunch -> ADE L 

a window will popup called The Virtuoso Analog Design Environment and go to menu in the ADE and go to Setup -> Simulator set to Spectre

pess OK

Next go to Analyses -> Choose and select a transient analysis (tran), a stop time of 1 second and it Enabled press OK

Then we need to select the signals we want to plot go to Outputs -> To Be Plotted -> Select On Schematic

Go the Schematic and select the vin and Vout wires the will color up and they will appear on the ADE window

Now we are done and press the green button to simulate the circuit

Now regular backups will be done by downloading the file from MoBaX and zipping it and emailing it to myself

 return to labs